Starting A Business quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas. -- Natalie Massenet
  • In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. -- Hanna Rosin
  • Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it. -- Richard Branson
  • So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try. -- Simon Sinek
  • Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed -- Sam Altman
  • Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses. -- NeNe Leakes
  • So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age. -- Matthew Lesko
  • In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses. -- Esther Dyson
  • Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • The research that Noam Wasserman has assembled here can help entrepreneurial companies who want to prepare well for their future. The Founder's Dilemmas is a must-read for anyone thinking about starting a business. -- Timothy C. Draper
  • For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country. -- Mitt Romney
  • The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government. -- Naveen Jain
  • It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still. -- Robert Herjavec
  • If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea. -- Blake Mycoskie
  • Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash. -- Richard Branson
  • It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving. -- Richard Branson
  • It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. -- Mark Udall
  • Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame. -- Kathryn Minshew
  • The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else. -- Michael Arrington
  • When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. -- Ice T
  • I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living. -- Jay S. Walker
  • You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget. -- Fred DeLuca
  • Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business. -- Lloyd Dorfman
  • As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. -- Matthew Lesko
  • I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people. -- Douglas Conant
  • That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. -- Mitt Romney
  • When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date. -- Wayne Rogers
  • I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business. -- Frank Silva
  • It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. -- Jim Cooper
  • Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business. -- Jean Chatzky
  • I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business. -- Kevin Systrom
  • Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. -- Tommy Rettig
  • Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product. -- Manoj Bhargava
  • I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate. -- John Catsimatidis
  • Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. -- Gavin Newsom
  • I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works. -- Marko Jaric
  • Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business. -- Sara Blakely
  • Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. -- Irving Berlin
  • You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time. -- Simon Le Bon
  • I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over. -- Wes Montgomery
  • With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it. -- P. T. Barnum
  • It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business. -- Kay Granger
  • There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration. -- Richard Branson
  • It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. -- Prue Leith
  • Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will. -- Dave Ramsey
  • I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream. -- Greg Wise
  • I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work. -- Ralph Reese
  • In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else. -- Mary Kay Ash
  • It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell. -- Elon Musk
  • When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly. -- Peter Thiel
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share